Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon. If I did, the show would not have stopped at Frontier. However, I am fairly sure that I do own the plot of this fic. I also own Yuna, Kansei, Satsuki, Kaori, Tora, Mina, Satoru, Naoki, and I think I own Geiburierumon ("Gabriel") and many random bad guys.

Yuuzora: Finally, my first fanfic! I hope that everyone will enjoy it, and forgive me for not sticking to the original stories, but I decided to use my own idea for my first story. R&R if you like, flames will be used to pop my popcorn!

Rein: And so it begins…boringly.

Blood and Data: One and the Same

Chapter 1: What is to Come

"And from the world of the humans shall rise the Guardians, born with the destiny of the Creators upon them, the eight who are neither digimon nor human yet both all the same."

Geiburierumon sighed heavily as he recited the ancient prophecy under his breath, trying his hardest to believe what the prophecy foretold. For hundreds upon thousands of years he had waited here, at the "heart" of the Digital World for the promised saviors to appear, only to watch his beloved world be torn apart by evil Ever since the Creators departed from existence the malevolent forces at work within the digital world had been disrupting the balance of the world, slowly dragging it under the waves in a sea of chaos. Many skirmishes between the forces of good and evil had been fought since that time, and now the feelings of hate, resentment, and scorn threatened to awaken the First Evil once again. And all that Geiburierumon could do was watch helplessly it happened, able to do nothing as he waited at his post for the promised saviors.

The angelic sentinel stood up from his throne, long dark hair trailing behind him as he moved towards the wall. In this place, the "heart" of the Digital World, every "wall" was in fact made of what appeared to be glass or some strange ice-like crystal, but it was much more than that. The crystal became for Geiburierumon the eyes to the outside world and to the world beyond it when the humans reside. His footsteps echoed hollowly in the empty hall as he made his way to the South wall, their many faceted surfaces each reflecting the Archangel Digimon's image, beautiful and unmarred.

Geiburierumon was a handsome digimon, even for an angel type, with eight ivory wings, long hair, and a face with possibly most beautiful blue eyes there ever were. Perhaps that was because unlike many other angelic digimon, he did not hide his face under a helm. His armor was entirely composed of white gold, from the plates on his shoulders to the guards on his boots. There was no armor covering his chest other than the plates on his shoulders and he also wore a soft white pair of pants along with his boots and gloves. Geiburierumon's strangest feature was quite possibly his hair, black as night. It was long and hard to tell where it ended because of the wings on his back. All eight were folded at the moment, to allow easier movement on the ground.

Geiburierumon stopped in front of the wall, again bringing complete and total silence to the "heart". Then with one gloved hand, the angel reached out and touched the crystal that made up the wall, and its ice clear color began to darken, first to a solid blue, then to a dark shade of navy. That navy quickly darkened as well and soon became dotted with tiny glowing flecks of white, and a sliver of silver materialized among them. The vision of the human world clarified as a dark street became visible in the nighttime shadows, and among them an even darker shadow stalked, something that did not belong in the human's world but to the other. Most likely it was one of the Fallen Ones that had made it through the barrier between worlds, seeking more weak places to help others break through. Break through to the human world, and conquer it as they did the digimon's!

There was one light still shining from a single room in one house, illuminating the room's interior. In that room, sitting before her computer screen, was a single young girl typing furiously on the keyboard. Geiburierumon thought for a moment that he could even hear the furious tapings of the busy keys as he watched the computer girl continue working.

Of course, she was one of them, the promised Chosen Ones. It had taken Geiburierumon many tries these past few nights to locate all of the Chosen, but with the final revelation of this one's location they could begin.

Hopefully, Geiburierumon thought, it is not too late.

His hand lifted of the crystal surface but the vision did not fade. Instead it got steadily clearer until it was almost as if he was standing directly behind the computer-happy teen. Geiburierumon's hand reached out towards the vision girl, and then through her, to touch the screen of the computer gently. Then he stepped back again, letting the scene fade. Before it did, though, he watched as the computer's screen went black and a message typed itself out in bold white letters.

"Do you believe in fate?"

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Yuuzora: So? Did you like it? I think it's an ok job for the first time I've ever tried writing fan fiction! And if things seem boring in this chapter, I'll try to make it better in the next one, when we meet the main character! I'm not sure just how many it will be before the get into the digital world though….

Rein: Like that's a surprise. You're just making it up as you go along, aren't you?

Yuuzora: No…ok maybe. Anyways, read and review, and if you have any tips for this newbie feel free to suggest them!